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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s success in becoming recognized as a malaria-free country by the World Health Organization (WHO) is an “extraordinary outcome,” said the Executive Director of the Global Fund on December 11, a UN-backed partnership to end malaria epidemics, UN News service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $32 million grant to help the Government of Tajikistan improve healthcare services in three districts of Fayzobod, Rasht, and Shamsiddin Shohin, ADB’s Country Office said on December 4. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Countries around the world on October 25 agreed to the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step toward achieving universal health coverage. The Declaration of Astana reaffirms the historic 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the first time world leaders committed to primary health care, the World Health Organization said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want and when they want. When people lack choice, it can have a long-term impact on fertility rates, often making them higher or lower than what most people desire, according to The State of World Population 2018, published last week by UNFPA, the United Nations reproductive health agency. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A child born in Kazakhstan today will be 75 percent as productive, when grown up, as he or she could be if enjoyed complete education and full health, according to a new Human Capital Index released by the World Bank on October 11. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Carrying on a tradition of over 25 years of partnership between the United States and Tajikistan, the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe has provided a school and a clinic to better assist local communities. On behalf of the Embassy, Isfara District Officials opened the Isfara School #31 in Sughd Province and Shahrtuz District officials opened the Korez Village Health Clinic in Khatlon Province, the Embassy reported. Continue reading
